DailyKos’s “Kos” to Sue Polling Company Research 2000

Markos Moulitsas, founder of DailyKos, announced today that he plans to sue Research 2000, a polling company he accuses of defrauding him by providing data that was “fabricated or manipulated beyond recognition.” According to the Moulitsas—sorry, Kos—the pollsters were unable to provide the site’s freelance statisticians with sufficient evidence to vindicate their results. Del Ali, the president of Research 2000, objects to this view: “I will tell you unequivocally that we conducted EVERY poll properly for the Daily Kos,” he told The Washington Post, which has also made use of the polling firm’s services.Moulitsas asks “that all poll tracking sites remove any Research 2000 polls commissioned by us from their databases. I hereby renounce any post we've written based exclusively on Research 2000 polling.” Do this right now! Unlearn everything you thought you knew about how 26 percent of Americans don’t believe in Pangea.

Nate Silver, statistically proven to be 100-percent adorable, writes that he too once suspected Research 2000 of procuring “other-than-random” results but does not go so far as to likewise accuse the outfit of fraud. He has, however, posted the complete contents of a cease-and-desist letter he received from Research 2000. “I emphatically stand behind any statements I have made about Research 2000, and will be constrained by nothing other than my common sense and my professional integrity in any comments I should elect to make about Research 2000 in the future,” he writes, refusing to either cease or desist.